Dynamo-electric machine.



L. J. HUNT.

DYNAMO ELEGTRIU MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1906.

Patented June 29, 1909.

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DYNAMO-ELEGTRIU Macrame.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LOUIS JOHN HUNT, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Conwy street, Rhyhin the county of Flint, Great Britain, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dynamo-Electric Machines, of which the following is a specifi'catio'n.

In the employment of induction motors it is well known that a system of greatflexibility is obtained by the use of two machines connected in cascade, because such anarrangement makes it possible to obtain a wide range of efiicient speeds. Various proposals have been made with a View to obtaining the advantage of such a. system with a less expense, thesebeingdirected to the combination of the two cascade connected motors into one machine. With this 'ob ject inventors have devised machines car rying two or more winding's on both the stator and rotor, the windings on each part.

bein adapted to produce fields of difierent num ers of poles, so that each of the stator windings co-acts with one and only cheer the rotor windin s. Such machines, when brought into the best form hitherto have a serious disadvantage in the high self-induction and consequentlow power factor which results from the presence of According to the present invention,- therefore, this source of loss is avoided by providing on the stator a single compound winding, which is so interconnected as to be equivalent to two windings producing fields of different numbers of poles. By this means the single cascade motor is made practical machine, since the power factor is substantially in-- creased and moreover owing to the less length of end connections in the compound winding the resistance loss is largely reduced. Compound windings for producing fields of difi'ereut numbers of poles have of course been previously ei'nployed in induction motors,- but only with the purpose of first producing a field having one number of poles, andnft-erward, with or without a change of connections, producinga field. having-"an Sher number of poles, so that the two-fields are not in existence at the same time. In such motors it is obviously only possible to obtain two speeds one corresponding to each number of poles, whereas in motors having two so crate windiz'igs an ad Specification of Letters Patent.

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P'tented June 29, 1909.

Serial no. saetsREIs ditional speed is obtained by using the two windings cascade-connected, that is producing fields or both numbers of poles simultaneously. In order to obtain this additional speed with a compound stator winding, it is neoessarylthat the currents producing one of the fields should flow through two or more parallelpaths, so that thecircuit for the currents producing the second field may be made or broken at will by the connection or disconnection of equipotential points in the circuit of the first field. (It will be'understood that equipotential as here used, implies equipotential with respeot t0 the. currents producing the first field, for obviously the points will be no longer equipotential when the second field is being produced).

This invention consists therefore in the employment on the stator of an alternate current motor of a compound winding of this nature, having two or more parallel paths through which currents may flow to )roduce a field of a desired number of poles interconnections are provided by which equipotential points in this winding may be joined, thus completing circuits the currents in which will produce a field of another number of poles. Two separate windings may be employed on the rotor and means may be provided whereby the connections between the rotor windings may be reversed, so that inythe one case the two rotor fields rotate in the same direction while in the other case they rotate in opposite directions. In this way, besides the three speeds ob tained above described, corresponding respectively to the two nnmbers'of poles'in the fields and to, say, the difference to the numbers, a further speed may be obtained corresponding to the sum of the-- two numbers of poles.

The invention is illustrated in the. accompanying drawings in which Figures 1 and 2 show two types of the com-' pound winding. Fig. 3 shows the motor having-a compound winding of this type on its stator with three slip rings on the rotor. Fig. 4 shows a motor of the type shown in l lf 3 but with five slip rings on the rotor instead of three. Figs.- 5, 6, 7 and S ind cate purely diagrammatically the changes of cqu'uicctions which can be obtained by means of the switching arrangements shown in Fig. 4. Figs. 9 and 10 show modified types of the compound winding. Fig. 11 shows the distribution and connection of the winding of Fig. l in a different manner.

To carry theinvention into elfect a stator windin of the kind illustrated diagrammaticafiy in Fig. l or Fig.- 2, isemployed. In Fig. 1 there will be found parallel paths 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, for the primary current which flowing throu h them produces poles, and syma field of one number 0 metrically "placed points like 23, 24 in these parallel windings are connected together either directly or through suitable resistances 25. This will local or independent circuits for the induced current-which will flow so as to produce a field of the second number of poles. Of

' course as a physical fact the currents actually flowing in the windings would not be independent one from another but their resultant would be the sum of the primary and induced currents regardedas flowing independently in their respective port-ions ofthe windings. In some cases also it may benecessary to have three or more parallel windings arranged as in Fig. 2 for the primary currents in order that a suificient number of local circuits may be closed by connecting the equipotential points 26, '27, 28 etc. in the primary winding to give asecondary winding having the required number of.

. secondary currents in any particular portion of the winding. In Fig. 11 the wind ing of Fig. '1 is shown in a difierent manner so as to explain more fully the method of arranging and interconnecting the conductors. The winding illustrated is 3-phase, and produces four or eight poles. .The direction of the currents supplied from outside is indicated by the crosses and dots within the circles which represent the conductors, while the direction of the induced currents is shown by the crosses and dots outside the circles. 7

InFigs. 3 and 1 is shown the application of a compound winding of the type above described to a motor which is designedto give a number of diiierent speeds, and switches are rovided for effecting in one of various'possi le-ways the necessary changes of connections. The winding is of the three phase type and each phase has on it four ta 8111 8 A, B, C, D, A',,B',G, D, and A B 2 D These trappings are joined tothe corresponding switchcontacts A A ,A etc. In the Dosition of the switches shown rovide the necessary the tappings A, A, A are joined to the mains, the tappings B, 13, B are joined. to the tappings C, C, C and. the tappings I), D, D are joined together. The wind ing, therefore, of the stator is exactly in the condition indicated by Fig. 1 except that the resistances 25 are replaced by short cir-- cuit connections. It will .be obvious, however, that the resistances might be introduced between the tappings B, C etc. In

, this condition the winding acts as above described as two windingsof different numbers of poles each co-acting with one of the rotor windings. When the slip-rings on the rotor are short-circuited the secondary winding oined thereto becomes inoperative, the points; B, C etc. become equi-potential points and the winding acts as a simple one of say w poles corresponding to the active rotor winding. The middle switch may now be opened without affecting the machine. By opening the switch which shortcircuits the tappings D, D, D reversing the middle switch so that it short circuits the tappings C, C, C and reversing the re- .maining switch so that the tappings B, B,

B are joined to the mains, the connections of the compound winding are so altered that when the slip-rings are short-circuited acts as a simple winding of 3 poles.

In Fig. 3 the two rotor windings 2 and t are joined together and to three slip rings r, s, t, which maybe short circ'uited by gradiially cutting out the resistances 11.- This motor, therefore, has three speeds apart from the variation of speed obtained by varying resistance'll. These speeds correspond to the three positions above described of the switches which control the stator winding. In the first position in which the.

vwindingisconnected as shown in Fig. 1, the current supplied from the source of supply produces a field which acts upon the corresponding rotor winding. The current thus generated flows into the second rotor winding producing a field which reacts upon the compound stator winding. In the second and third positions only one of the rotor windin is active when the slip-rings are short circuited, the speeds obtained being those due to an a: pole and a y pole induction motor respectively.

- InfFig. 4; an extended range of speeds can be'obtainedbe cause the speeds above named could "be attained, while further provision is made in the switch 13 whereby the connections between tworotor windings canbe reversed so'that inthe one case the speed of the motor corresponds to m y poles while in the other case it corresponds to m 3] poles.

Resistance 11 serves as before to join together the three slip rings either those at k, m and g' or those at Z, 'n and g according to the position of the switch 16. The 'rheostats 14, 15 enable the slip rings. at k and m 1 Q directly or through resistances 14, as indicated by Fig. 5.

Another speed can be obtained by connecting the slip rings in the order 70, n, m, Z which is done by reversing the switch 13, the effect of this being that the two magnetic fields created by currents circulating in the windings 2 and 4, will rotate in the same direction instead of as before in oppbsite directions. This arrangement is set out diagranunatically in F ig. 6.- It is also possible to apply the same simplification of the windings to therotor. For this purpose it is preferableto divide the windings into Y two or more groups, each group being so interconnected that when acted upon by the .r-pole 'or y-pole field of the stator the sum of the M. F.s generated in the windings of the group taken in order shall be m'l. Such a system of connections for two phase windings is indicated in Fig. 9, and a similar arrangement for a three-phase mesh connected winding is shown in Fig. 10. In both these figures, as before, 2 and 4 are the rotor windings, or rather the parallel groups otthe one winding and it will be seen that the mid-point of each generating conductor, or set of conductors in series, of the one group is connected to the junction of a pair of conductors or sets ofconductors inithe other group, this being an arrangement'of connections which will give the above described effect. In each group ofthese windings currents are induced by, say, an m-pole field on the stator, and these currents fiowin into. the other group produce any-pole fie d, which is able to react upon the stator. Thus for instance, where the rotor has in the normal construction four separate windings and the stator has a corresponding number of windings all so arranged that the machine is"equivalent to four separate machines running in cascade, it becomes pos sible to use say two windings on the rotor in placeof four, the other two windings for the induced currents being replaced by circuits closed across corresponding symmetrically-arranged points in the primary windings just as shown for the stator windings in Figs. 1 and 2.

In all cases where the stator and rotor have each either two or more separate windings or the equivalent of these, the secondary rotor winding may be arranged to give a field rotating in the same direction as the field produced by the primary winding, for instance by the use of the switch'l3 connected as in Fig. 4:; in this case the machine will work as an induction motor having a number of poles equivalent to the difference between the number of poles of the secondary and primary rotor windings, whereas when the fields rotate in opposite directions the equivalent number of poles is the sumof 1 'the equivalent numbers'for the conductive and; inductive windings.

What I claim is 1; In a dynamo electric machine the combination of a stationary part and a rotating part, windings on one of said parts adapted to permit the flow of currents producing magnetic fields of two different numbers of poles, and windings on the other of said parts having-a plurality of parallel paths adapted to allow of the flow of currents producing magnetic fields of two different numbers of poles.

2. In a dynamo electric machine the combination with a rotating part having se arate windings adapted to permitof the ow of currents producing two magnetic fields of different numbers of poles, connections between said windings, and means for reversing said connections, of a stationary part and windings on said part havin a plurality of parallel paths adapted to at ow of the flow of currents producing magnetic fields of two different numbers of poles.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS JOHN HUNT. Witnesses:

EDWARD Common, 7

THOMAS HURTHWAITE Dn'r'ron. 

